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Anti-Virus Software & Strategies

Today, with everything depending more and more on the Internet – Online Banking in particular – it is very important to have a reliable Anti Virus program installed, and just as importantly, kept up to date and working.

EMAIL SCAMS… again… This is worth the read… it could LITERALLY save you thousands of dollars… If you STILL can’t be bothered to read the whole thing, at least READ THIS PART: “Look out for unusual domain names in the email senders address, or a country code that does not fit,” he said. “For […]

Wikipedia has the following information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoLocker It’s worth the read. Ive also used the send the file to a website option mentioned in the above article to decrypt the files and have never had any success. Nor has anyone I know of.

With yet ANOTHER version of the Cryptolocker Virus doing the rounds, now is a good time to remind you all about the vital importance of having an up to date and reliable back up system in place, and that the back up is disconnected from all computers and networks when not actually doing a backup. […]

A new Telstra scam email is doing the rounds, claiming your direct debit banking details are out of date. I have spoken with Telstra, and they have confirmed the scam. The email goes like this: Telstra BigPond Billing and Account Management BigPond Credit Card Authorization Failure Message ID:XfuzBNBqDZG Dear Telstra BigPond user, During our monthly […]

Experts described the virus, called Goner, as one of the fastest-spreading they had yet seen and warned computer users to immediately delete it if they received it. Alex Shipp, spokesman for anti-virus service MessageLabs, said: “It’s spreading with tremendous speed and thousands of users in Britain have already been sent it. “The virus mass mails […]

Victoria Police has revealed that unmarked USB drives with harmful contents are being placed into the letterboxes of Melbourne residents. “The USB drives are believed to be extremely harmful and members of the public are urged to avoid plugging them into their computers or other devices,” the police stated. The USB drives, distributed so far […]